Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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Liu Xia's Confinement in a Forced Labour Camp Extended "Because of the Olympics"
2008-06-02Ms. Liu Xia, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Xinyang in Henan Province. Her three-year prison term at a forced labour camp was scheduled to end in April 2008. However, authorities at Xinxiang Women's Forced Labour Camp refused to release Ms. Liu Xia, citing the Olympic Games as an excuse. Ms. Liu's family has been told she will be released when the Olympic Games end. Are the "Olympic Games" a reason to extend a prison term? Do other countries do this when they hold Olympic Games? We wish everyone to understand what the CCP is doing for the Olympic Games. -
The Long-Term Persecution of Ms. Zhang Shujie from Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia
2008-06-02On November 5th, 2005, police broke into and ransacked Ms. Zhang Shujie's home. She was sent to a detention centre along with other practitioners. It was in the cold of winter. To torture the practitioners, the police ordered criminal inmates to strip the practitioners and pour cold water on them. Ms. Zhang went on a hunger strike to protest the abusive treatment. The police took her into a hospital and force-fed her for five days. On December 5th, 2005, Ms. Zhang was taken to Tumuji Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Zhang was forced to work over eleven and a half hours every day and had to finish her work quota. Given the intense hard labour and mental pressure, Ms. Zhang showed symptoms of a lung infection and had difficulty breathing. On January 25th, 2008, Ms. Zhang was released. -
Mr. Sun Xi Tortured and Disabled at Tiebei Prison in Changchun City, Jilin Province
2008-06-02I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Yanji City, Jilin Province. The police arrested me in October 2000 and took me to Tiebei Prison in Changchun. I was tortured there beginning in the spring of 2002. On January 10th, 2003, a group of six male criminal inmates was ordered to torture me. First, they drew a circle on the floor and made me stand in the middle. If I moved, they would beat me. Then, although it was wintertime, they made me stand outside in the cold for an entire day and night. On the second night, they beat me again without let up for an hour and a half. They broke one of my ribs in the process, but they still did not stop. An inmate hit me brutally all over with a bricklayer's hammer wrapped in rubber. They hit me so much that I almost died. Because of this torture, the muscles in my feet have atrophied, and it is extremely difficult for me to walk. I still have not recovered; I am almost paralysed. -
Ms. Zeng Xiumei in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, Persecuted in a Forced Labour Camp, One Lung Seriously Injured
2008-06-01On March 13th, 2008, police took Ms. Zeng Xiumei to a brainwashing centre in Zhanjiang City. They also took her young son, traumatizing him mentally and physically. Ms. Zeng was sent to the Hainan Province General Bureau Forced Labour Camp, where she was beaten and force-fed. She was beaten black and purple, and one of her lungs was badly damaged. On April 30th, Zeng Xiumei, who by then was just skin and bones, was released. The police dropped her off at the curb and quickly left. -
Ruthless Reform Methods in Heizuizi Women's Prison in Changchun City
2008-06-01Ms. Zhang Shuqin was imprisoned in the 8th Division. Two criminals watched her constantly as she underwent brainwashing. She was locked in confinement for several months. Seriously traumatized, she suddenly broke out of the confinement one day, and her four limbs were shaking constantly. From then on, she spoke unintelligibly and had blank stares. She would forget what she had just said. She always complained about headaches and looked pathetic. After that, the prison guards moved her to the prison's Education Ward, but her physical condition still did not improve. Having suffered from severe mental torment and physical torture, she was diagnosed with depression. -
Dalian Foreign Language Institute Teacher Mr. Liu Shan Arrested and Missing
2008-06-01At 8:00 a.m. on May 13th, 2008, as Liu Shan left for work, agents from the 610 Office arrested him. He is still missing. His wife and three-year-old son remained at home. Police wanted to break in but failed. Later on the mother and son disappeared, and no one knows their whereabouts. Mr. Liu was well known as a good teacher, particularly since he began practising Falun Gong. He was arrested twice before for practising Falun Gong. -
Ms. Zhu Guoying Persecuted to the Point of Mental Collapse in Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp
2008-06-01In March 2008, many Falun Gong practitioners detained at Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp were handcuffed and beaten. Although the persecution was exposed to the outside world, the labour camp authorities continued torturing the practitioners. Among them, Ms. Zhu Guoying had a mental collapse due to the torture. Since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Zhu has been arrested, detained and her home ransacked many times by police. She has been fined several times, totalling over 25,000 yuan. In the labour camp Ms. Zhu would at times talk senselessly to herself or shout at others. Guards taped her mouth shut and tied her down to the bed, causing her health to deteriorate even further. -
Mr. Wang Guiming from Tonghua, Jilin Province, Died As a Result of Abuse in Detention; Authorities Attempt to Cover Up Crime
2008-05-31Thirty-eight-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Wang Guiming died as a result of abuse in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp on February 29th, 2008. He had been arrested while working on February 13th and many people saw the police beat him in the police van. He went on a hunger strike to protest the detention and was force-fed three times. When the family saw his body there were bruises all over it, evidence of abuse. Yet the police maintained that Mr. Wang had killed himself. -
Two Practitioners Die from Illnesses after Being Detained and Abused in Fushun City and Xinjiang
2008-05-31Mr. Lu Tingxiao was 66 years old. He started practising Falun Gong in 1997. In October of 1999, Mr. Lu went to Beijing to appeal for a stop to the persecution of Falun Gong. After he came back, his workplace sent him to a brainwashing centre and he was fined before he was released. Mr. Lu was detained several times afterwards and his home was ransacked many times. In May of 2007, while Mr. Lu was in Hainan Province, he was sent to another brainwashing centre. During detention, he showed symptoms of severe illness. Mr. Lu passed away on March 31st, 2008. -
Two Older Practitioners Ms. Zeng Suqiong and Ms. Wang Yufeng Die as a Result of Persecution
2008-05-31Ms. Zeng Suqiong, 50, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Leshan City, Sichuan Province. She was arrested many times for persisting in Falun Gong practice. For a long while, she led a destitute and homeless life. When she was arrested again in 2002, she was sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp and detained in the Longquan Women's Prison in Sichuan Province, or Chuanxi Women's Prison. Her husband divorced her and took away their son and all of their property. After she was released in 2006, she was homeless, and had to live in an elderly residential home. She was the only female in the home. Even so, she was monitored and harassed by local police officers. She passed away in June 2007. -
Additional Information about Mr. Gu Qun's Death at the Hands of the Police in Liaoning Province
2008-05-31Mr. Gu Qun was a Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. He was arrested five times and later sent to a forced labour camp. While Mr. Gu was distributing Falun Gong materials exposing the persecution on March 16th, 2008, he was arrested by police and taken to the Yaojia Detention Centre the next day. He went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was violently force-fed, which permanently damaged his health. He died within 23 days after being arrested for the fifth time. -
Additional Information on Mr. Bai Heguo, Beaten to Death in Liaoning Province
2008-05-30On December 19th, 2007, some Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Bai Heguo was transferred from Huazi Prison to Nanguanling Prison. Because he refused to do forced labour, guard Zhang Shuyi ordered prisoner Zhou to beat Mr. Bai in an office and then handcuffed him to the heating pipe. Mr. Bai's head was beaten beyond recognition, and his eyes were only a slit due to the swelling. When the guards found that he was dying, they took him to the hospital for emergency care, but he had died by the time he made it to the hospital. -
Elderly Practitioner Dies as a Result of Persecution at Renshou County Brainwashing Centre in Sichuan Province
2008-05-30According to witnesses, at 9 a.m. on July 9th, 2006, Ye Changdong, the head of Wenlin Town Police Station, put on plain-clothes and went with 20 others to force a female practitioner in her 70s to the emergency room on the third floor of Renshou County Hospital. The elderly practitioner sat on the edge of the bed for a little while and seemed to be in a lot of pain. The police told her to lie down. With one hand on her abdomen, she lay down on her side. A while later, Yang Changdong noticed that the woman was dying, so he got a doctor to do artificial respiration. It was only about three or four hours from the time she was taken into Emergency until her death. During that time, no one examined her. The doctor said that there was no record made of her visit. -
Practitioners Tortured in Chengdu City Legal Education Centre, Elderly Ms. Deng Shufen Dies
2008-05-30Ms. Deng Shufen, in her 70s, was arrested and detained eight times after the persecution started. On October 1st, 2007, she went to speak out for justice for Falun Gong to the town government. In the middle of that night officers arrested Ms. Deng and took her to the Chengdu City Legal Education Centre (a brainwashing centre) for 40 days. She was released after she could not eat as a result of the mental and physical torture. She was as thin as a skeleton, and her eyes remained wide open for two months. She died on May 5th, 2008. -
Mr. Jin Yongnan from Tumen City, Jilin Province, Dies As a Result of Torture
2008-05-30Mr. Jin Yongnan, a Falun Gong practitioner, was brutally mistreated in forced labour camps for years. In 2004 police arrested him again at home and confiscated Falun Gong books and leaflets exposing the persecution. The police tried to make him reveal the source of his materials by torturing him. From that afternoon on, the police beat him six days and six nights in a row, deprived him of sleep, and put a steel hat on his head so that two people could take turns beating it with a wooden bat. The bat snapped, his head bled and swelled, and every part of his body was damaged. In Jiutai Forced Labour Camp and suffered even more cruel torture, including the "stretching bed" and "swinging." Due to suffering from long-term torture Mr. Jin passed away on May 3rd, 2008.